List of plants known as gooseberry
Gooseberry most often refers to cultivated plants from two species of the genus Ribes:
- Ribes uva-crispa native to Europe, northwestern Africa and southwestern Asia.
- Ribes hirtellum, American gooseberry
- Hybrids between Ribes hirtellum and Ribes uva-crispa, including most of the modern gooseberry cultivars
The common name is also used for:
Ribes
- the genus Ribes as a whole
- particular species of Ribes contrasted with currants, i.e., many but not all of the wild species, including:
- Ribes amarum, bitter gooseberry, native to California
- Ribes binominatum, trailing gooseberry, native to northwestern North America
- Ribes californicum, California gooseberry
- Ribes cynosbati, prickly gooseberry, native to eastern North America
- Ribes divaricatum, spreading gooseberry, native to western North America
- Ribes echinellum, Miccosukee gooseberry, native to Florida
- Ribes inerme, whitestem gooseberry, native to northwestern North America
- Ribes lacustre, swamp gooseberry, native to northwestern North America
- Ribes lasianthum, alpine gooseberry, native to California
- Ribes leptanthum, trumpet gooseberry, native to southwestern North America
- Ribes lobbii, gummy gooseberry, native to western North America
- Ribes marshallii, Hupa gooseberry, native to western North America
- Ribes menziesii, canyon gooseberry, native to California
- Ribes missouriense, Missouri gooseberry, native to southeastern North America
- Ribes montigenum, mountain gooseberry, native to western North America
- Ribes oxyacanthoides, Canadian gooseberry, native to northern North America
- Ribes quercetorum, rock gooseberry, native to California
- Ribes roezlii, Sierra gooseberry, native to western North America
- Ribes sericeum, Lucia gooseberry, native to California
- Ribes speciosum, fuchsia-flowered gooseberry, native to California
- Ribes thacherianum, Santa Cruz gooseberry, native to Santa Cruz Island, California
- Ribes tularense, Sequoia gooseberry, native to California
- Ribes velutinum, desert gooseberry, native to western North America
- Ribes viburnifolium, Island gooseberry, native to California
- Ribes victoris, Victor's gooseberry, native to California
Plants unrelated to Ribes
- Byrsonima lucida
- Ceylon gooseberry, a species of Dovyalis native to Sri Lanka and southern India
- Chinese gooseberry, or kiwifruit, the edible berry of a cultivar group of the woody vine Actinidia deliciosa and hybrids between this and other species in the genus Actinidia
- Curio herreanus, a succulent plant in the aster family that superficially bears resemblance to gooseberry
- Pereskia aculeata, Barbados gooseberry, an unusual cactus
- Family Phyllanthaceae:
- Phyllanthus emblica, Indian gooseberry, emblic
- Jamaican gooseberry tree, a herb-like plant of the family Phyllanthaceae
- Otaheite gooseberry, the only tree with edible fruit in the family Phyllanthaceae
- Star gooseberry
- Phyllanthus acidus
- Sauropus androgynus, a shrub grown in some tropical regions as a leaf vegetable
- In the family Solanaceae:
- Physalis angulata, also called balloon cherry, and cutleaf groundcherry
- Physalis peruviana, Cape gooseberry, indigenous to South America and South Africa
- Withania somnifera, Poison gooseberry
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